Migrants disembark rescue ship in Italy

By Wladimir Pantaleone and Guglielmo Mangiapane
Updated August 21 2019 - 9:53am, first published 9:50am
Relief has arrived for 80 migrants on a rescue ship after an Italian prosecutor ordered its seizure.
Relief has arrived for 80 migrants on a rescue ship after an Italian prosecutor ordered its seizure.

Nearly one hundred migrants who were stranded on a rescue ship off the coast of Lampedusa have disembarked on the Italian island, ending a prolonged stand-off between the Spanish charity operating the vessel and the government in Rome.

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